Dreams Heya! So today I woke up from a dream which felt like an entire day of progress, I could recall every detail of the day that never happened and when I woke up, after I realized it was a dream, I felt so disappointed that the work I did didn’t really happen.

Now I can hardly remember most of it, but I still feel like my sleeping was actually another day of work. It’s so weird, can you imagine that the last 20 years of your life, for example, have been just a dream and you can wake up any moment and lose all the progress you did in these 20 years? Sounds pretty scary to me.

It could be scary or liberating depending on how you look at it. Have you ever watched the film Groundhog Day?

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.